different between quintillion vs zillion

English

Etymology

quint- (“five”) +? -illion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?n?t?l?lj?n/
• Rhymes: -?lj?n

Numeral

quintillion

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
   • 2014, BBC News Magazine Monitor, Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming, BBC:

     Last week, we used...the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion...[the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.

2. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.

Synonyms

• (10¹⁸): a long scale trillion
• (10³⁰): a short scale nonillion

Translations

See also

• (10¹⁸): Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.
• (10³⁰): Previous: quadrilliard. Next: quintilliard.
• (ISO prefix): exa- (short scale).

Noun

quintillion (plural quintillions)

1. (figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:zillion.

Translations

French

Etymology

From quint- (“five”) +? -illion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ti.lj??/

Numeral

quintillion

1. 10³⁰; a quintillion by the long scale; a short scale nonillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: quadrilliard, 10²⁷
• Next: quintilliard, 10³³

Further reading

• “quintillion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

See +? -illion

Pronunciation

• enPR: z?l'y?n, IPA^(key): /?z?lj?n/
• Rhymes: -?lj?n

Noun

zillion (plural zillions)

1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
   • 2008, "Brain tests show child wealth gap", BBC News, 6 December 2008:

     "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."

Synonyms

• (unspecified large number): See also Thesaurus:zillion.

Derived terms

• zillionaire
• zillionth

Translations

Further reading

• Indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia